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    Unit Studies: KONOS v. Amanda Bennett

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I think what you'd prefer would depend on what you're trying to achieve.  I've used both and they are two different types of unit studies.  With Amanda Bennetts' there is notebooky type stuff (which you don't have to do) with the occasional craft at the end.  With Amanda Bennett's there is no need to go to the library or plan.  They seem random in topic because it's to capture your child attention and let them explore their gifts.  It's not about we need to learn this time in history or this character trait or science.  It's all linked together based on the topic.  I have an Ipad so we all cuddle on the couch with the ipad (just like you would with a book) and explore.  I have a wicked fast duplex printer so I print out everything in one shot.  When I don't use the printer I would just let them mark it up on the Ipad with a pdf reader.  I add in our chapter or picture books from our personal library and we're good to go.

     

    Konos is more activity driven.  It does take more planning but it doesn't have to be more than an hour.  Here's my post about my sticky note planning..http://barkingstarfish.blogspot.com/2013/05/sticky-note-konos-planning-for-year.html.  For some reason I can't link it but there it is.  It takes me about an hour.  Also you don't have to use the library.  I have links on my blog where i've linked things I wanted to use...can someone say youtube??  So you can make it what you want and how in depth as you want.

     

    I've also used Five In A Row so that is also a different type of unit study.  More oral and then you have to add crafts or activities in.

     

    To add one more the the fray...there is Christian Cottage Units which I think of as Konos Lite. You use to be able to get the Oceanography for free on currclick but I don't see it.  It's laid out nicely and is super easy to plan.  

     

    For us unit studies and summer is a time of discovery. So if it were me, I'd let my kids pick the topic and then let them explore it rather than the typical thing which is mom decides and mom does the planning and mom assembles everything and mom... you get the picture.  To me that is how a child finds out what they like and who they will become.  

     

     

    Talk to me about McGuffey readers

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted · Edited by singbanshee

    Here are some links that will probably help:

     

     

     

    How To Use A Mcguffey's

     

    Vintage Education

     

    Using The McGuffey's

     

    And here is the book that teaches you how to use ALL of the eclectic series including the McGuffey's. It answers almost all the question most people have in regards to teaching and why:

     

    The Eclectic Manual of Methods

     

    I have used the McGuffey's for years and my kids read amazing for their age using the techniques that are in the above posts.

     

    To answer quickly the difference of original (brown) used sight words and revised (colorful) used phonics. The original was written by William Holmes and the revisions were done by his brother because of the demand to remove the religious overtones due to humanism beginning to take hold.

     

    There is also the Moore McGuffey Readers which are the original (brown) updated with current syntax and cartoonish pictures rather than block prints.

    Has anyone figured out how to stop the whining?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I just say I'm sorry but I can't hear you through all that whining. They always then ask in the right voice. If however it's complaining then what I say is okay, now you can tell me three good things about ____. You have to be really consistent about this and not just do it once in a while. It really works.

     

    I hate to say this but here goes (no tomatoes please)...you can't be a complainer yourself. If all day long they hear mommy complaining (or Daddy) they learn it. ;) I'm not saying OP you are but rather just to be aware of our heart attitudes because kids emulate whatever they are around...good or bad.

    McGuffey Primer App

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted · Edited by singbanshee

    For anyone who's interested there's an app for teaching the McGuffey Primer to your kids. It's not a "game" with lots of crazy graphics that your kid doesn't get anything out of. It's called Phonics and Reading and if you're looking for something more bare bones to help with phonics this may be it. ;)

    We got our Sonlight catalog in the mail

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    But even if they did this it wouldn't apply to older editions, right? Because that would be a copyright change, wouldn't it?

     

    They cannot legally tell you not to resale. Here's the law for it...

     

     

    "THE FIRST SALE DOCTRINE

    The physical ownership of an item, such as a book or a CD, is not the same as owning the copyright to the work embodied in that item.

     

    Under the first sale doctrine (section 109 of the Copyright Act), ownership of a physical copy of a copyright-protected work permits lending, reselling, disposing, etc. of the item, but it does not permit reproducing the material, publicly displaying or performing it, or otherwise engaging in any of the acts reserved for the copyright holder, because the transfer of the physical copy does not include transfer of the copyright rights to the work."

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